White House on shutdown: 'We are winning'

'It doesn't really matter to us' how long it lasts 'because what matters is the end result'

Published: 10/04/2013 at 11:41 PM

(Huffington Post) The standoff over the government shutdown is, obviously, a political affair, with each side hoping to extract enough pain that the other acquiesces. But part of effective politics is pretending (in a convincing fashion) that politics doesn’t matter. So it’s hard to see how this quote from an anonymous official inside the administration does the White House much good.

Via the Wall Street Journal:

Said a senior administration official: “We are winning…It doesn’t really matter to us” how long the shutdown lasts “because what matters is the end result.”